Chennai Music Band To Perform At London Music

Thrilled by this news, I could not stop sharing this.

Two reasons to feel happy

1.  Our Chennai lads going to London to perform in front of 250000 people is something unimaginable and is a great achievement by itself.
2.  My cousin's son Manoj Kumar (a violinist) is one among the achievers.  This is a feel good factor for me and my family.



Keep it up guys!  You guys ROCK!

Courtesy : http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article3569176.ece

Do Not Drink Coffee/Tea - But Why?

You would come across our elders and other moral scientists, god men, spiritual leaders and other preachers asking people to refrain people from drinking coffee/tea or consuming garlic and onions.  

Have we ever thought why?

I recently happened to listen to a spiritual discourse rendered by the renowned scholar Velukkudi Krishnan.  He too told the same.  DO NOT DRINK COFFEE/TEA.   DO NOT EAT GARLIC AND ONIONS.    Though I am not convinced by the reasons he put, I feel this could be the reason.

Man is an addictive animal.   Once he gets addicted and attached to something, he latches onto it for the rest of his life till he gets addicted to something else which automatically De-addicts him from the previous thing.   Affection is good, Addiction is not.   Coffee, Tea, Garlic and Onions are addictive agents.   Once you get latched onto it, it is difficult to get rid of them.   But, like I said before, they also act as a de-addiction agent.   Let us suppose, someone is a chain smoker but doesn't have the habit of drinking coffee/tea (could be rare, but just assume this for the sake of argument).    If he starts consuming Coffee, he soon gets addicted to it.  This addiction helps reduce cigarette smoking.  So, this is good in one way or other.   

Windows 8

Download the 64-bit Preview ISO image and installed it on my Toshiba Satellite C600 laptop. 

Installation was smooth - typical windows installation with no hickups.   Booting was smooth.   They made the windows startup extremely simple.   Could have added some color and flash to it.  




The windows start screen is a step forward.


This is impressive.   That boring old start button which we have been seeing Windows 95 is gone!!!!!
Looks similar to my friend's windows mobile phone which he bought recently.  Gives me a feeling that Microsoft is tying to bridge the mobile and desktop world with common UI which is fascinating and a way forward. 

The UI looks impressive, dashing and much better than its predecessors.

I could install a lot of applications with no trouble....like

Pidgin messenger,
Groupwise Client,
Office 2007
Google Desktop Search
Bitdefender

No issues running these....

Looks like the Windows Preview release is stable as Windows 7 itself

Software Engineers must be trained to THINK!

On the other day, I was listening to an interview of Neville Roy Singham, CEO, Thoughtworks.   He brought in a very interesting point regarding the notion of software thinking rather than software training.   According to him, good software is hard to write because it has to go through a lot of thinking process.  So, it is not the training in software that would create a software architect but the deep thinking would do that.   Many software companies in India and US recruit untrained software engineers, but spend a lot of time training them.  

The analytical and problem solving ability differentiates the average software engineer from the best.  

Educational institutions which impart software training should emphasis on software analytics and software reasoning.  I call that CLEAN ROOM SOFTWARE TRAINING.

If we do that, we will have more softwares engineers writing clean useful intelligent code.